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“Scene and Heard”: A Mural Window from the ICU
In the second blog in the series on our upcoming academic art installation “COVID’s Hidden Scars”, I am going to focus on the creation of
23rd October 2026 No Comments
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In the second blog in the series on our upcoming academic art installation “COVID’s Hidden Scars”, I am going to focus on the creation of
Over the past year, my time as British Academy mid-career fellow has had a transformative effect not only on my understanding of the focus of
It is less common to talk about failure in academia. Recently I have had a lot of failures. I have had three articles rejected over
The funding landscape in UK higher education has grown ever more competitive over the last decade, with success rates for many schemes falling below 10%.
“The democratisation of research has been identified as one of the key methodological challenges of the 21st century” (Edwards and Brannelly, 2017) Over the past
In 1995 Robert Putnam wrote a fascinating and highly influential essay called Bowling Alone. Within this, and the subsequent book published in 2000, Putman documented
There has been a long-running debate within academia about the accessibility of the research that we conduct. It seems somewhat perverse that we, as academics,
One of the most frightening aspects of teaching in higher education in the UK is that it is predominantly something that you learn “on the
A large part of my role at Sheffield University is teaching organizational behaviour to undergraduate students. I lead a module of around 350 2nd year
Democracy to Come was devised as a website to disseminate information about how we might move towards achieving more democracy at work. During my travels
